Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Fraud and Merit - Assessing Knowledge and Competences in the Age of AI

Abstract

A year and a half after the most popular platform for natural language processing, a sub-area of Artificial Intelligence developed by OpenAI, was made available to the public free of charge, educational institutions at all levels, particularly higher education, need to adapt quickly to a new reality, whose concern is being felt in different ways, in different sectors and levels of education. The initial euphoria, resulting from the appreciation of the exceptional ability to produce texts and solve complex problems such as writing algorithms, critical reflections, chemical reaction equations, and mathematical equations, among many other areas, quickly aroused a natural apprehension in the educational community about the implications that the use of this type of technology induces in the teaching/learning process. Although this concern is naturally evident at the different levels of education, it is mainly focused on higher education.